@ANDIV1234

Studying insects and their microbiomes in the Peruvian Andes

andiv.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/
Joined March 2022
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🗣 Kim Lea Holzmann, bióloga tropical: “Los insectos han perdido su capacidad para adaptarse al cambio climático” ver.ng.com.es/jjs922
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🦋 New paper out! Dry moth specimens retain only 30-40% of their original body mass. We derived correction factors to estimate fresh weight from museum collections. @NotaLepido | Open access nl.pensoft.net/article/18124… #Lepidoptera #Entomology #Moths @ANDIV1234
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Really happy that a moth made it to the cover of @Nature! Thanks to my co-author Gunnar Brehm for this great photo 📸 Find our study on thermal limits in tropical insects in this week's issue: nature.com/nature/volum... @ANDIV1234 – at Würzburg, Germany
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🦋 What if we could automatically extract traits from thousands of Lepidoptera specimens? We present LEPY, a Python pipeline for automated extraction of morphological and colour traits from Lepidoptera images! sciencedirect.com/science/ar… #Lepidoptera #Ecology #Python @ANDIV1234
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Big effort, exciting results - our paper on the constraints of thermal limits in tropical insects is now out in @Nature! 🦋🐝🪰🪲🦗 @ANDIV1234 nature.com/articles/s41586-0… – at Gerbrunn, Deutschland

Limited thermal tolerance in tropical insects and its genomic signature

Nature - A survey of tropical insect populations and thermal tolerance limits indicates that species from lowland areas have low capacity to survive increased temperatures, and that thermal...

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New ANDIV paper published! What determines the insect gut microbiome along a tropical elevation gradient? Check out the exciting results, led by Andrea Pinos! 🧪🧬 frontiersin.org/journals/mic…

Frontiers | Host identity, more than elevation, shapes bee microbiomes along a tropical elevation...

Understanding how host-microbiome interactions respond to abiotic and biotic factors is key to elucidating the mechanisms influencing ecological communities ...

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New results from the ANDIV project just published in @ESAEcology
Kim Lea Holzmann@KL_Holzmann12 Mar 2025
Second PhD paper published! Curious about mammal diversity patterns and their drivers along a tropical elevation gradient? 🐆🌳 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wi… 🧵1

Net primary productivity but not its remote‐sensing proxies predict mammal diversity in Andean‐Am...

Tropical forests are disappearing, but we have a limited understanding of the factors driving species coexistence in mammal communities of old-growth forest ecosystems. The total energy that is...

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It's published! The first paper of my PhD: the effect of Amazonian #coldwaves on #insects and wild #mammals ❄️🌴royalsocietypublishing.org/d… @ANDIV1234 @Zoo3_Wuerzburg 🧵1/6 – at Göttingen, Germany

Cold waves in the Amazon rainforest and their ecological impact

Abstract. Cold waves crossing the Amazon rainforest are an extraordinary phenomenon likely to be affected by climate change. We here describe an extensive

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This publicly available online talk is a little sneak preview of a paper that is soon going to be published from the ANDIV project, addressing the exciting #coldwaves in the South American #tropics ❄️
Kim Lea Holzmann@KL_Holzmann27 Dec 2024
Are you curious what happens to animals if an extreme cold wave ("Friaje") hits the Amazon rainforest? Check out my talk at the Ecology and Evolution seminars @cassyniapp from @RSocPublishing cassyni.com/events/81NQ8JL9Q…

Cold waves in the Amazon rainforest and their ecological impact

Cold waves crossing the Amazon rainforest are an extraordinary phenomenon likely to be affected by climate change. We here described an extensive cold wave occurring in June 2023 in Amazonian-Andean...

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First #barcoding results in!
Kim Lea Holzmann@KL_Holzmann13 Nov 2024
Exciting office times! We got back the sequences from all our tropical insect samples, from which many will be undescribed species. Had to learn how to handle that kind of data and how to create a phylogeny, but finally we got there - Aren't trees beautiful?! 🧬
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All insect samples (almost 10,000!) collected along the tropical gradient @ANDIV1234 in Peru within a year of intense fieldwork are now on their way to the genetic lab for DNA #barcoding. Probably many of our samples will be new to the database. I'm very excited for the results! – at Würzburg, Germany
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After several years of working with them, I still find the #sphingids beautiful and very fascinating. Here are some #hawkmoths from #Peru, collected as part of the @ANDIV1234 sampling project, and deposited in the Phyletic Museum in Jena, Germany. – at Jena, Germany
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Back to the lab! @KL_Holzmann and @pal_biology processing the very diverse Malaise and light trap trap samples from the gradient in Peru 🐝🪰🦟🪲🦗🦋🐜 – at Würzburg, Germany
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📢Join @Zoo3_Wuerzburg at @Uni_WUE in our🆕MSc Program "Conservation Biology and Applied Ecology" Topics: biodiversity 🐦‍⬛🦋, ecosystem services 🐝, agroecology 🚜, chemical ecology 🐜, soil ecology 🕷️, effects of land use 🏙️& elevational gradients 🏔️etc. biologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ma…
Marbled white (Melanargia galathea) - butterfly of the year 2019 (BUND)

ALT Marbled white (Melanargia galathea) - butterfly of the year 2019 (BUND)

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We are hiring! Looking for a postdoctoral researcher in ecoacoustic, to explore what soundscapes can (and can't) tell us about ecological health and function
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Dung-beetle networks: 🐒🐈Mammal DNA in 🪲beetle gut 💩reveal that nocurnal 🌜#dung #beetles use #jaguar and #puma dung, diurnal 🌞species follow the #monkeys. New paper by @karenpedersen5 & @BeerenVon in @thePeerJ reassembly.de/news/uncover-t…
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Only 3 months ago this was what my daily life looked like. Data analysis is exciting, but so was the Peruvian jungle! – at Würzburg, Germany
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Bringing some tropical vibes to Portugal! Team #bees @pal_biology and team #dungbeetles @KL_Holzmann with some first exciting results at #gtoe2024 this week 🐝🪲 – at Lisbon, Portugal
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12 months of fieldwork of the ANDIV project are successfully completed 🎉 We have lots of exciting data to process... insect samples, camera traps, thermal tolerance data, bioacoustics and climate data... New year - new chapter, from the field to the lab (and office)! – at Bavaria, Germany
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